History of R&R Chapter 1 (Citrus College)
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Embodied the attitude of the rock and roller
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Robert Johnson
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One of the firs performers to blend the blues with country and western. He anticipated rockabilly.
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Hank Williams Sr.
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Brought danceable, upbeat blues boogie to mainstream audiences. He anticipated R&B
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Louis Jordan
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Gave Birth to electric blue and sparked a blue movement in England.
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Miles Davis
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Brought a \"cleaned up\" white version of rock to for mainstream audiences not quite yet ready for the real thing.
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Pat Boone
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Became THE icon of rock and roll and penetrated ALL aspects of pop music including Country, Blues and Pop.
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Elvis Presley
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Robert Johnson
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Delta Blues
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Howln Wolf
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Chicago Blues
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Louis Jordan
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Jump Band
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Big Joe Turner
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Jump Band
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Little Richard
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Gospel Shout
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Elevis Presley
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Rockability
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The moonglows
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Doo-wop
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Fabian
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Teen Idol
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Sun Records
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Memphis
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Atlantic Records
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New York
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J&M
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Memphis
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Stax
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Memphis
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Specialty
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Los Angeles
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White Pop music in last 1940's reflected the tastes of the growing teen ager population.
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False
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Because of its romantic and sweet vocals, foo-wop was one of the first black popular styles to effectively penetrate the white pop market.
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False
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Slap Bass and twanging guitars and Chicago blues trademarks.
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True
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The effects of the payola hearings led to a rise in the Top 40 formant
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Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, and Ritchie Valens died in a plane crash.
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False
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In 1949 the recording industry term \"race records\" was replaced by:
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Rhythm and Blues
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Who was the leader of the Beach Boys?
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Brian Wilson
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Tin Pan Alley
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New York
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Tin Pan Alley Consisted ofL
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\"The Great American Songbook\" \"1940's Big Band\" \"1950's Popular Music\"
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George Gershwin and Irving Berlin belong to what time period?
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Tin Pan Alley
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\"Roots Music\" Known as:
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Vernacular Music
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Major Roots Music Producer
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John Lomax
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Continued in his fathers footsteps as a music recorder and producer:
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Alan Lomax
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He becomes a popular entertainer playing 'old-fashioned\" Blues:
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Huddie \"Leadbelly\" Ledbetter
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The style of makes use of \"walking bass\"
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Boogie Woogie Piano Playing
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Also known as \"country blues\" the primary practitioners were male African American itinerant laborers:
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Mississippi Delta Blues
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Delta Bluesmen
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Son House and Robert Johnson
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Non-Dance Music that tells a story about hard ships, loneliness or sex:
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Mississippi Delta Blues
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Allegedly sold his soul to the Devil at the crossroads
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Robert Johnson
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This recording agency is most closely associated with \"The Big Bang of Country Music\"
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Bristol recording Sessions
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Bristol recording Sessions were held in what state?
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Tennessee
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The influence of this family can be heard in the hit film O Brother where art thou:
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Carter Family
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Blended Country and Western with the Blues
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Han Williams SR
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Bar Room Drinking Music Rough, Raspy, and Crude Vocals
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Chicago Blues
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One of the most important Chicago Blues master
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Muddy Waters
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The rolling Stones deriver their name from Muddy Waters' song:
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Rolling Stone
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The first entertainer to use the tape recorder:
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Bing Crosby (Chicago Blues)
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The first commercial tape recorders became available shortly after:
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WWII
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An increasing number of white teenagers became infatuated with the new sound due to the invention of this:
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Juke Boxes
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One of the first Disk Jickeys:
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Alan Freed
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A relatively unknown blues euphemism for sex and partying, to disguise the music's black origin:
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Rock and Roll
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Important Independent Record Labels
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Atlantic Chess Sun Studios
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This important indie label recorded early stars including: Ruth Brown, Big Joe Turner, Ray Charles, Clyde McPhatter and Ben E. King
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Atlantic
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These two brothers recorded Muddy Watter, Bo dudley, Howlin Wolf, Willie Dixon, Sonny Boy, Big Boy, Chuck Berry:
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Chess
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The birthplace of the rockabilly style rock:
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Sun Studios
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Instrumental in relabeling \"Race Music\" Rhythm and Blues
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Jerry Wexler
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Jump Blues
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New Orleans
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Big Band Swing Music was the most popular style of music during this time period:
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WWII
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Known as the New Orleans \"Jump Blues\" King
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Louis Jordan
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This term was first used in 1941 in reference to juvenile delinquency:
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Teenager
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When music migrated from the living room into the teenagers bedroom, a divergent, teen age based:
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Market emerged
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The U.S. Hit parade is dominated by:
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White mainstream performers
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Brought unpredictability and turmoil to the music industry:
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Rock and Roll
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More Spendable income More Leisure time Looking for excitement or \"kicks\" No marketing specifically to youth sub-culture
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The Restless \"Teenager\"
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__________began to listen to black dance music; rhythm and blues.
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Teenagers
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This gave rise to portable record player and more efficient Juke boxes.
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The 45 Record
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Stared in the Wild One:
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Marlon Brando
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Funny and Clever
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Louis Jordan
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Sophisticated and Jazzy
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Nat King Cole
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Inoffensive and non threatening he transitioned from Jump Blues to Rhythm and Blues
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Fats Domino
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One of the best known rhythm and blues performers:
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Big Joe Turner
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Consisted of electric guitar based blues:
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Urban Blues
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Consisted of boogie boogie rhythm and with honking horns:
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New Orleans Jump Blues
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Rhythm and Blue:
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Boogie woogie rhythm with honking horns
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Doo-Wop was being played on both
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coasts
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Owned an Operated by Sam Phillips:
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Sun records
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Discovered and merchandizing of Elvis Presley:
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Sam Phillips
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A hybrid of blues and hillbilly music:
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Rokabilly
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He departed from the R&B tradition and became one of the first important singer songwriters:
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Buddy Holly
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This style started in the late 1940's with black vocal harmony groups performing on the street corners of New York:
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Doo-Woop
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2 or more backup singers using non sense syllables such as rat a tat or sh boom
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Doo Wop
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much of this persons music is a combination of the gospel shout tradition and boogie woogie piano:
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Little Richard
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This principal music performing right society in america that wanted nothing nothing to do with rock and roll
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ASCAP
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This put rock and roll DJ's on the stand during an investigation of getting money under the table:
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The Payola Herings
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The after effects of the payola hearings were the marketing or respectable white teen idols promotion of the top 40 play lists and homogenizing of rocks regional variations:
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The Payola Hearings
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Fabin, Bobby Rydell and Frankie Avalon wereK
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Teen Idols
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These artists died in a charter plane crash near clear lake iowa:
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Big Bopper Richardson, Ritchie Valens and Buddy Holly
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This famous music Idol enlisted in the Army
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Elvis
